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While these foundations have shaped core professional values, they increasingly fail to account for the relational, sociomaterial, and more\u2010than\u2010human conditions that characterise contemporary nursing practice. This paper draws on critical posthumanism, particularly as theorised by Rosi Braidotti, to examine what a posthumanist reorientation of nursing education might look like and what it might demand. The paper proceeds in three moves. First, it traces the philosophical lineage of secular liberal humanism in nursing, showing how its normative image of \u2018the human\u2019 has historically marginalised feminine, racialized, non\u2010Western, and non\u2010human forms of agency contradicting nursing's own commitments to social justice and equity. Second, it uses Braidotti's key concepts subjectivity\u2010as\u2010process, monism, and autopoiesis to reconceptualize nursing's four metaparadigmatic concepts: person, environment, health, and nursing itself. 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